{"id":444841,"date":"2023-05-05T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T10:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=444841"},"modified":"2023-05-05T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:05:08","slug":"1469-sudanese-fleeing-recent-fighting-registered-as-refugees-in-ethiopia-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/444841","title":{"rendered":"1,469 Sudanese fleeing recent fighting registered as refugees in Ethiopia: Official\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least 1,469 Sudanese who fled recent fighting in their home country have registered as refugees in Ethiopia, an Ethiopian official said on Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking to journalists, Meles Alem, Spokesman for Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), said 7,726 individuals from 61 countries have been evacuated from Sudan through Ethiopia so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MoFA Spokesman also said the Ethiopian government doesn\u2019t have plans to close its border with Sudan and will accept Sudanese and other nationals seeking refuge in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meles also said Ethiopia has so far given 75 over-flight permissions for countries trying to evacuate their citizens from Sudan. France was given 13 overflight permissions, while U.S. and Spain were each given 10 overflight permissions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also said even though it\u2019s hard to put a correct figure, it\u2019s thought that there are around one million people of Ethiopian origin living in Sudan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since mid-April major cities in Sudan have turned into battle fields as fighting rages on between Sudan\u2019s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the country\u2019s national army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sudan has been suffering a political crisis since Sudanese army chief, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan declared martial law in October 2021 and dissolved the previous joint military-civilian government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 1,469 Sudanese who fled recent fighting in their home country have registered as refugees in Ethiopia, an Ethiopian official said on Thursday.\u00a0 Speaking to journalists, Meles Alem, Spokesman for Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), said 7,726 individuals from 61 countries have been evacuated from Sudan through Ethiopia so far.\u00a0 The MoFA Spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":444848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-444841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/su.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1RIR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444846,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444841\/revisions\/444846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}